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Thank You To All Who Serve Our Country
Posted on 09/13/2017 6:03:47 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska
I guess you’re getting our warm weather after is leaves here. You’re welcome to it, but I hope it doesn’t get as hot there as it was here today....99. Blech!
It won’t get nearly as hot here as it is down there. Mid to upper 80s is what they’re calling for. That’s not too bad unless the humidity is high.
Highs around 60 degrees were a bit much this week. Our corn is finished but there are fields of soybeans that were planted later that still need warm temps while their beans plump up in the pods.
(Sorry if this version was already posted here. I didn't see it.)
Well, then, I hope it stays warm long enough for those beans to become a good crop!
When is the corn harvested?
It should stay warm long enough for the beans. They’ll be through growing soon and the plants will start dying.
Some farmers are already harvesting corn in our area but ours isn’t ready just yet. I look at the ears whenever I pull out or in the driveway and they’re still upright on the stalks. When they start drooping over, they’ll be ready to go.
I guess every field is different.
They were harvesting the corn around the 1st of October in MO last year. *ahhhh-CHOO*
It depends on when they were planted. The guy who plants out fields has acreage all over the county and there are others who plant several fields. Can’t plant them all at once. :-) Now the early fields are being harvested and they just go with the flow in the same order to harvest.
I’m guessing ours will go around the end of the month and yeah, aaaaahhh-CHOO! Not exactly looking forward to that part! LOL
Also going to miss all those stalks acting as a buffer to the roar of trains going by. They do muffle the sound a lot and when the fields are bare it sounds like the trains are in the front yard when they’re going south to north.
I didn’t realize the trains came so close to y’all! I can hear them here late at night and they are about 3 miles away. I kind of like the sound when it’s sort of a long way off. Sort of like the old Hank Williams song talks about. “The midnight train is whining low....”
Shoo, the tracks run less than a couple tenths of a mile from us ..... right along the opposite side of Hubby’s cousin’s farm next door. Sometimes they’re hauling heavy loads and we can feel the ground shake.
We can still feel the ground shake now but the corn does make a good buffer for the racket. We still hear them but they aren’t nearly as loud.
((HUGS))Good morning, LUV W. How's it going?
BTTT
BTTT
Besides the versions on youtube done by Hank, there are many other singers' versions of that song on youtube as well. (One version there is done by Elvis, and he said in that clip that he thought this is the saddest song he'd ever heard.)
Here's Hank:
We’re all in the conversation here, and I love that song, too. Elvis’s version is beautiful.
Hank’s is just so raw and of course, original.
Hai, Good Morning (((HUGS))) - things seem to be sorting themselves out - I’ve been bidding routes that were dropped. Usually I’ll bid the month but since those storms things went hectic.
Frontier has three flights a day going there and I’ve flown there several times with a bizjet. I’m in Phoenix right now and heading up to Chicago then back to Denver (my base) then home for four days.
God Bless Them
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Love This!! Thanks for posting, LUV
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